After Jaganmohan Reddy came to power, his government set up a cell in the police department to dig out all past corruption cases allegedly committed by Kodela and his family members
In the nine months since the Congress govt assumed office, the state has incurred additional expenditure of Rs 18,000 cr on implementing poll promises and welfare schemes
As many as seven minor coal deposits were identified in the previous plan of the Lemru Reserve, covering some 450 sq km
Not only in Chhattisgarh but all over India, unemployment is one of the biggest issues
The new chief minister predicted the departure of Jogi would benefit the Congress
Chhattisgarh government has announced abandoning 8,493 infrastructure projects
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel Thursday assigned portfolios to his Cabinet colleagues, keeping finance and mining with himself and giving the crucial home department to senior leader Tamradhwaj Sahu. The newly-appointed ministers, who took oath early this week, have been allocated portfolios, a government public relation officer here said. Besides finance and mining, Baghel, heading the first Congress government in Chhattisgarh in 15 years, will handle general administration department, energy, public relations, electronics and information technology portfolios along with the departments not allocated to any other minister, he said. Minister T S Singh Deo has been given key departments like panchayat and rural development, health & family welfare, medical education, planning, economics and statistics, 20- point programme and commercial taxes (GST). Similarly, Sahu will head important departments like home, public works department (PWD), jail, tourism, ...
The two senior leaders also in the fray for the coveted post, T S Singhdeo and Tamradwaj Sahu also took oath as cabinet ministers
Baghel, 57, is an OBC leader and the led the party to a two-thirds majority in the mineral-rich state, ousting the Bharatiya Janata Party's government
The sources also indicated that unlike Rajasthan, there would be no deputy chief minister
Upadhyay, a 1985-batch IPS officer, who was the DGP since March 2014, has been made Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Police Housing Corporation
The Raman Singh-led BJP government had launched the SKY scheme in July ahead of the state Assembly elections
Bhupesh Baghel is not new to controversies. Most of his remarks had landed in controversies but he did not budged on it